François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes (17 June 1700 – 25 March 1736) was a Canadian explorer and soldier who established several forts in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana, including Fort Vincennes.

In May 1722, Vincennes was commissioned an ensign and took control of Fort Ouiatenon near present-day Lafayette, Indiana.

Despite pleas by the governor of Louisiana to increase funding for Vincennes's project, the directors of the Company of the Indies, which controlled the territory at the time, were not responsive.

In 1732, after the company returned Louisiana to the direct control of the king, funding and support for Vincennes's outpost increased.

[4] On 25 March 1736, Vincennes was burnt by the Chickasaw Indians, along with other captive French at the village of Ogoula Tchetoka, near the present site of Fulton, Mississippi,[5][6] although the historical marker in Vincennes (pictured in this article) gives the location as Fulton, Tennessee.